abstract:, WWV 38, (The ban on love) is an early opera in two acts by Richard Wagner, with the libretto written by the composer after Shakespeare's Measure for Measure. Described as a , it was composed in 1834, and Wagner conducted the premiere in 1836 at Magdeburg.
In "Das Liebesverbot" (composed, given just once, and withdrawn when Wagner was 22), a holier-than-thou German viceroy comes to stamp out sin in Palermo.